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Summary: Amazing
Review: I loved A Clockwork Orange. I couldn't put it down! I definately reccomend doing the way I did. If you want to see the movie, read the book first. You kind of have to have your own ideas set before a movie visualizes it for you. This book is pretty relevant to society today. There's all this violence, and everyone wants to do anything to stop it. This book really explores that. What would we be willing to do? Would we be willing to change the way a person thinks, and change their basic nature? What would that actually do? I really reccomend this book.
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Summary: "real horrorshow"
Review: A Clockwork Orange is an original and thought evoking novel. Burgess presents you with the scary possibility of moral oppression and a difficult question: Is it better to choose evil or to be forced to choose good? He offers the opinion that "a man who cannot choose ceases to be man." He becomes a "clockwork orange," which Burgess describes in the introduction as "a living organism oozing with juice and sweetness" yet with a "mechanistic morality." The novel is very well written. Burgess raises an important question and actually manages to elicit the reader's sympathy for the wicked, but charming Alex, all the while entertaining with the invented slang. The nadsat and the cheerful attitude of Alex throughtout the terrifying sequence of events creates a mood that is amusing, in a morbid way.
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Summary: "Am I to be a Clockwork Orange?!?!"
Review: I wish I could give it a million stars! The book delivers the idea that a person must change through their own will, lest they be a Clockwork Orange, with awhallop. The Nadsat language, composed of American and British slang, along with actual Russian words, improves the story's effect. And Alex is the perfect model for the term, "A Clockwork Orange.". I love how consistent Burgess is in this book. While in Staja, only prisoners call him Alex. Everyone else refers to him as 6655321. What an excellent book!
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Summary: "What's it going to be then, eh?" - six stars is right!
Review: Talk about a book that sticks with you, I find myself wanting to slip some nadstat into my converstaions inadvertantly! This is, like many before me have said, an excellant book. Probably thee most original piece of literature I've read thus far. Burgess is a literary genius creating such a story with a completely made-up language. How can you top that? Definently a must read-don't see the movie first, even though it is good too.
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Summary: A Masterpiece Underneath the Violence
Review: Upon first glance at this book you may be shocked by the seemingly senseless acts of violence commits. Alex and his droogs perform beatings, rape, and even murder. Most of this is covered up using a type of Russian slang known as Nadsat. It takes a little bit of the bite out of the horrific scenes taking place. But once you get past all of that violence and look at the message of the novel you can realize what a master Burgess is. He is describing the dangers of conforming. He asks thought provoking questions like, "What price are we willing to pay for a quieter life?" Is it worth sacrificing the humanity of the perpetrators to keep the world at peace? As Alex is under going "Ludivico's Technique" is he not really just losing his humanity? Is it better to allow man to freely make a choice to do evil deeds or to force him to do what is socially considered "good"? All in all this is an excellent read. Especially if you are into dystopian novels designed to question the society we live in today.
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Summary: A visionary masterpeice! 6 stars if possible!
Review: A Clockwork Orange... Visionary masterpiece is an understatement. It is a premonition of a horrific future. Bands of vicious teens coupled with greed, mind-numbing drugs, and a total disregard for human life lead to gangs who would kill you for the selfish thrill of it. In this story, the leader of one such gang, Alex, lives a life of crime where in order to attain anything, all he has to do is take it. He is desensitized to violence and enjoys it quite well. His principle interest are rape, Beethoven, and ultra-violence. After his lifestyle becomes intolerable by his peers, his droogs violently secede. This leaves Alex alone against the judicial system with a rap sheet of murder. While in jail, with the help of his charm, he is chosen to undergo a new treatment. This treatment, named the Ludovico Treatment, teaches the sub-conscious to respond to violence with fear and nausea. Unable to even kill a fly, he is sent into the world again, only to find himself at the shear mercy of all whom he abused.This novel reflects the time period in which it was written, with just a little hint of communist metaphor. This book shows that a body forced to act a certain way, ceases to be real. The body displays itself like a normal healthy delicious orange, but has nothing but meaningless gears inside. Its dialect and writing style are truly unique. If you don't enjoy this book, you probably read it upside-down. I have enjoyed the whole sub-culture of A Clockwork Orange, and you will too.
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Summary: A Masterpiece of Language
Review: "A Clockwork Orange" is the most amazing book i've ever read! Nadsat (the slang language of Alex and his "droogs") perfecty conveys ideas where English might not suffice... The core question of the novel is one that should be thought over very well: "At what cost redemption?" Burgess was a true genius in creating this book.
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Summary: Great Book!!
Review: This book is one of my personal favourites. I enjoyed the whole idea of the novel: that you can't program people perfectly. That's what I got out of it. If you read it, you'll know what I'm talking about. This book is better than the movie because the movie leaves out the end of the book. Great book that I suggest you read if you're interested in the way society wants people to conform to their ideas of bad and good.
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Summary: A MASTERPIECE ON BURGESS' PART! BRAVO!!
Review: I must have read this book five times, and I've seen the movie about 10, and I never tire of them! The book is well written, and though the "Nadsat" (the Anglo-Russian slang spoken by Alex throughout the book) is a bit difficult to understand, you get the hang of it quickly! The book deserves every one of those stars!!!!
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Summary: Burgess and Vangelis
Review: There isn't much more to say here about this book...it is brilliantly written, conceived, and executed, albeit occasionally heavy-handed with its message. The implication of the world being taken over by the Soviet regime is lost on many, but lends an excellent dimension to the book. I hesitated, however, to give it 5 stars...so many of Burgesses' other works are much better...but it deserves no less. Read it while listening to Vangelis's "Blade Runner" soundtrack--it adds a new dimension...
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